A former Sunny Delight Beverage company bottling plant in Littleton has been purchased for $4.6 million by a joint venture of real estate investment firms.
The fate of the 16.5-acre facility on Harvard Road was in limbo when Sunny Delight announced in August of 2015 that it would shutter its operations at the location where 63 people were employed. Production at the plant, which bottled Fruit 2O and Veryfine fruit juices, was transferred to other facilities.
The loss of the bottler was a blow not only to the local job market, but the town that was preparing to lose $400,000 in revenue from the water it used.
The plant was purchased by a joint venture of investment firms that includes New Mill Capital Holdings of New York that will collectively be called Littleton Holdings. It covers buildings at 3, 20 and 29 Harvard Road as well as on King Street, according to property records.
